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TONI REPAYS HER BACKERS Baby Tornado Sweeps Over Tropical Park After Opener. Warmest Day of Florida Season Prevails Small Crowd Watches Fridays Off-Day Card. MIAMI, Fla., March 31. Paul Kelleys Toni, a horse that was bruited around and about the paddock as a very good thing, indeed, won the mile and seventy yards feature of todays racing at Tropical Park, which gloried in the title of the East Side of Heaven Purse. The winner, ridden by Jimmy Ashcroft, who is still the leading rider of the session despite the fact that he has recently lost his "bug," came flying up from fourth place in the final yards to get the decision by a length over Cosgrave Stables Jack Patches, a horse which was out in all of the pace and which had set most of it. B. Bretts Celestino finished third, some five lengths off the runner-up, and Dulcimer was fourth. Seven started in the contest after Eli Yale was scratched, due to running a fever of 103 this morning. The day was one of the warmest of the Florida session, with a hot sun beating down all afternoon. The track was fast for the feature, run in 1:43. A light crowd was out for the races this afternoon, tourist trade being virtually nil at the present time. A baby tornado swept over the course for a few seconds after the running of the opening event, but did no damage. It was the tail-end of a serious twister that hit Daytona Beach earlier in the day. Dulcimer had plenty of early speed in the feature, went to the van at once, but was unable to open up on Jack Patches. The latter went to the top down the back stretch, opened up a length and a half lead at the far turn and came into the final lane three lengths clear. Dulcimer held on in second place until they were going to the sixteenth pole. There Toni charged up on the outside, collared Jack Patches seventy yards from the wire and won going away. Celestino was well placed for the entire distance. He finished determinedly in the final yards, but was not good enough to finish better than third. Dulcimer was tiring rapidly in the final yards of the race. Mrs. P. Snells Saxonby started the day off ! T 4- 4-LA fn-nw lnrnvi- oo Via ixrrtn fVio six furlongs opener by a length and a half over Oaktree Stables fast-closing Flushing. The latter, which has a disposition to sulk, was back in the pack as the winner was making the pace by five lengths, but Le-Blanc knocked the sulks out of him in time to take the second award, three lengths in front of H. Howards Ivy X. Sun Arbor, medium of heavy last-minute betting, could land no better than fourth in the field of eleven. Chuck Charlton rode the victor, whose time was 1:13. Saxonby made virtually all of his own pace. ANOTHER CHOICE SCORES. The second straight favorite showed the way home as Mrs. Parker Comings On The Dot led Cosgrave Stables Golden Thought to the wire by a length and a half in the three-quarters event that was second on the program. There was a dead heat between T. W. Wienengas Balkos Maid and R. H. News Grand Light for the third award. Shantime was next past the judges. Porter Roberts put up a good ride on the winner, rating him along in front for most of the distance. The time was 1:12. River Divide Farms Airtight drove up fast in the stretch after pegging the pace of Maebrille virtually all the way to win the half mile juvenile contest that was third. At the end the General Lee colt was two lengths clear of the Darby Dan Farms 1 Darby Dallas, which had just a nose to spare I over Maebrille. The latter, a daughter of Brilliant, from the Maemere Farm, had four lengths on Marliant as they finished the journey. The time was :48. The winner was the third straight favorite of the afternoon to get home on the front end of the procession. He was ridden by Charlton, marking a double for that lad. Jack Long, who rode the second horse, was astride Airtight in his last. He claimed after the race that another jockey leg-locked him or he would have won. W. W. Adams Blue Grotto, ridden by Eddie Robart, broke so fast she appeared to have a step at the gate and drew off from that point home to win the fourth event. At the end of the journey she was five lengths clear of Jerry McCarthy Stables Mexico City. It was a hot battle for the place award, with Mexico City taking that placing a nose in front of S. Schroeders Broadkill and getting up in the final jump. Tutticurio was a half-length back. Blue Grotto was another well-supported horse, ruling second favorite in the field of six that accepted the Issue. The Nassak filly went over the distance in 1:12.
